Antoine BABIN
Biography

Antoine Babin, a farmer perhaps from La Chaussée, near Blois, in the Orleanais region of the Loire valley in France, born in c1631, came to Acadia by c1662, when he married Marie Mercier, daughter of Françoise Gaudet and ____ Mercier, whose given name has been lost to history. (After Marie's father died, Françoise remarried to Daniel LeBlanc and became the matriarch of that prolific Acadian clan.) Antoine died at Port-Royal in c1687, in his mid-50s, and Marie Mercier became a widow like her mother. But before his death, Antoine gave her 11 children. Their seven daughters married into the Rimbault, Landry, Richard dit Sansoucy, Doucet, Breau, Comeau, Doiron, Benoit, Martin, Sauneuf, and Pitre families. Three of their four sons, all born at Port-Royal, created families of their own. All of them settled in the Minas Basin, and one of them moved on to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island.

Oldest son Charles, born in c1664, married Madeleine, daughter of Michel Richard dit Sansoucy, at Port-Royal in c1686. He fathered 12 children, including six sons who married into the Gautrot, Bourg, Dupuis, Thériot, Landry, and Melanson families. His daughters married into the Bodart, Dupuis, Landry, and LeBlanc families. Charles settled at Grand Pré, where most of his children and grandchildren remained. Two of his grandsons, Claude and Jacques, married into the Cormier and Bourgeois families of Chignecto and may have settled in that community in the mid-1740s.

Vincent, born in c1665, married Anne, daughter of Claude Thériot, at Port-Royal in c1688 and moved to Ste.-Famille, Pigiguit, not far from his older brother Charles. He also fathered a dozen children, including five sons who married into the Bourg and Landry families. His daughters married into the Richard, Forest, Broussard, and Landry families.

Antoine, born in c1676, did not marry.

Youngest son, Jean, born in c1684, married Marguerite, daughter of Charles Boudrot, at Port-Royal in c1705. They also settled at Ste.-Famille. By the early 1750s, however, they had moved on to Port-Lajoie on Île St.-Jean. They had seven children, including four sons who married into the Landry and Thériot families. Their daughters married into the Landry family.

In 1755, descendants of Antoine Babin of La Chaussée could be found in the Minas Basin, especially at Grand-Pré and La Famille, Pigiguit; and on Île St.-Jean.

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